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Balarama

Review
By PaperTigers

Young readers will learn much about elephants and the mahouts who care for them from this charming story and its fabulous illustrations. Interspersed with Ted Lewin’s full-page paintings of the forest, the animals, and the glorious spectacle of the Dasara procession are Betsy Lewin’s delightful colored cartoons of children playing with baby elephants, Drona tipping a truck over (and eating “all but one case of the bananas” it carried), and the Lewins’ visit to Drona’s pink marble grave. . . . It’s easy to imagine Balarama inspiring children to make their own pilgrimages to India for Dasara in years to come! — target=”_blank”>